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jess do tell

Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina) on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 6:23 PM (2 weeks ago)

I'm hoping this involves an actual vagina face.

Tep (ktepi) on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 6:28 PM (2 weeks ago)

Like the frat boys are known for saying, "I was drunk" or maybe "I was just experimenting."

I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess) on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 6:43 PM (2 weeks ago)

face-to-face?

jambalaya backgammon (grady) on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 6:58 PM (2 weeks ago)

jess did you DO IT with the vagina???

grbchv! (skowly) on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 7:08 PM (2 weeks ago)

scg's story still sort of wins everything on this thread

xpost sounds like it was more of a vadge meet-n-greet

Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand) on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 7:11 PM (2 weeks ago)

Miami style.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

David R. (popshots75`) on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 7:16 PM (2 weeks ago)

why don't I get invited to those

Curt1s (Curtis Stephens) on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 7:17 PM (2 weeks ago)

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

That was all vadge thread transcription. Sorry - I didn't realize the hlines were so authentic looking.

I feel like Chicago voters feel completely disempowered to do anything about anything. Everywhere you look, you hear or see people talking about Daley is going to win no matter what, so why bother? That's how it feels, anyway.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Like, I can't even find results for my ward! I'm sure that Schiller won (because she's an incumbent and then tend to stay that way) but I'm at least curious. That's what I mean about a foregone conclusion.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa for a second there I was confused with all of the vaginal talk.

Ok , so what you're saying is that the battered wife syndrome comparison isn't so off the mark after all, or am I just hearing that? What it looks like to me is that it's ok if he sneaks around behind our backs, consorts with unsavory individuals and treats us like dung as long as there are flowers in the flower baskets and a shiny new item on Michigan Ave. that we can show to our friends from out of town.

2/3 of Chicago voters are disempowered because they don't vote. I'm not all angry or anything, but if people don't vote, they are most certainly disempowered.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

2/3 of Chicago voters are disempowered because they don't vote.

not to get all jaymc on you but doesn't the word "disempowered" infer that someone's power is being TAKEN from them rather than being given away freely and willingly? like they're being deprived of power rather than rejecting it? or is that just my interpretation?

also, i strained my left groin muscle running down the ramp for the el this morning. things can only get better from here, right?

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I went to the trib website and the results are listed there in order

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2007/by_state/IL_Page_0227.html?SITE=ILCHTELN&SECTION=POLITICS

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I have no idea what that word means denotatively, but I know that if people surrender, they are the ones giving up. Aside from those shysters who call voters to tell them that they'll be thrown in jail if they try to vote and they have unpaid parking tickets, people seem to be surrendering all on their own. I got like 100 phone calls from my alderman trying to get me out on election day. He even offered me a ride to the polling place.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I did not vote for him.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i actually care a lot more about the alderman race than the mayoral race because i don't live in bridgeport and it will be my alderman who is responsible for patching potholes and fixing sidewalks and making sure burned out street lights get replaced.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just coming here to post that I know that what I said was a self-fulfilling prophecy ("I can't make a difference so I won't vote but if I don't vote I'll never make a difference). I was also going to say that I might be projecting this sense of pointlessness and defeat because I've been reading a lot about the relationship between domestic violence and welfare, which makes the battered wife syndrome comparison not only apt but eerie.

This is also where I have to say that I didn't vote because I have yet to change my address and voter registration. I am embarrassed by this.

Kevin, I'm not even sure that disempowered is a proper word.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I'm just saying that I can follow the thought process of someone who is feeling defeated by Chicago politics and therefore doesn't bother to vote. I mean, shit, we voted for Todd Stroger in November and then he put through devastating budget cuts! That's got me feeling pretty defeated, and I'm basing my career on not being defeated.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah BUT part of not being defeated is voting. The next time that turd Stroger is up for election, we vote for someone else. That's how it works.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Taking an active role = not being defeated. Even if you're occasionally wrong.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

The Bad Emily was working for someone running for alderman who I am pretty sure lost (I can't remember the ward) which means that she'll lock herself in the closet for the next couple months.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay?

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh. Helen Schiller won by a smaller margin that I expected.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm off to class. I want to apologize for being so zealous about voting, but I can't. It's something we should all do.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

This is also where I have to say that I didn't vote because I have yet to change my address and voter registration. I am embarrassed by this.

Kevin, I'm not even sure that disempowered is a proper word.

Jenny on Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:23 AM (7 minutes ago)

i've moved in each of the last four years, i haven't voted at my correct polling place in since 2003. i just show up at the old place and cast my vote there.

jenny, according to dictionary.com disempowered is a word but when i copied the above quote it erased the definition i had copied and i'm too lazy to go back. also, i have nothing against the use of made up words.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

disempowered is a perfectly cromulent word.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I committed voter fraud in the last election. I just got scared to do it again for fear that the bar people would find out and come shoot me.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse has shamed me. I'll do better next time, I promise.

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I have various excuses for not voting, but they are pretty weak excuses, and I know deep down that Jesse is right.

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

battered woman : abuser :: jenny : IL bar people

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny, what was the name of the temp agency jeff had a good (or at least not miserable) experience with?

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't you mean Amanda, Nick?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

It's something really easy, like Chicago Office Temps or something but I always forget what it is.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

New Office Temps

― Jeff, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's funny how someone asks that same question about once a week, not that I ever remember either though.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I know! Me, too.

Oh, hey potential job seekers, there is a federal govt job fair at the DePaul Lincoln Park campus this Friday. It's $5 if you're not an alumni of a number of Chicago colleges, but open to the public. Bring resumes.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I am dumb.

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

and hungry.

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought you were making an obscure joke and intentionally confusing Amanda with Jesse and I, personally, decided to find it surrealistly funny.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Eat some oatmeal, Nickcakes.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I just had oatmeal! Oatmeal with blueberries in it, which is usually my favorite, but it was kind of disappointing. Oh well. I get a free law school lunch today on the ABA. THANKS FUCKERZ.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

We bought one of those ridiculous 55-packet oatmeal boxes at Costco. I am having Cinnamon Roll flavor at the mo'.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't like instant oatmeal very much. It's good in a pinch or to take to work but for home use I'm all about the Quaker Oats. Not even quick oats! Slooooooow oats. (Note: the time prep difference between regular rolled oats and quick oats is about four minutes.)

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I also like pinhead oats but they really do take forever. It's like cooking dried beans.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I had oatmeal this morning already. I just can't keep the names straight on NuILX. And for some reason, harassing people about voting seemed more like a Jesse thing than an Amanda thing.

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

steelcut oats are where it's at.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Oatists.

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I love regular oatmeal with brown sugar, but these packets are great for throwing in my bag and having quickly at my desk at work.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I had to harass Jesse into voting. Three times now. And he's still one ahead of me.

Oatists = LOL

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Dudes - and yes, I say 'Dudes' - I am about to go remind my boss of the review I was supposed to have a month ago. WISH ME WELL!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I almost got sonned by Steve Edwards from Eight Forty-Eight. They did a bit where they called a made-up alderman (Ed Bus, 54th Ward) and I couldn't believe what an asshole this guy was and I was starting to post about it! And then I found out he was not a real alderman. And then I told you all about how dumb I am.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

So, a guy from my band and a friend of his are doing this thing where they live on $30 worth of food (each) for the month of March. Dollar a day. You're not allowed food that people give you, but discarded food is okay. Do you think you could do it? What would be your strategy? Bulk rice? Ramen?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i could do it and since i've been flat broke for at least two weeks a month since december i've probably been close to it but the real question is why the fuck would i want to?

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

You're not allowed food that people give you

That's silly! I could get free lunch at school three days a week if I wanted to. Learning to work the free lunch/free food happy hour circuit is an integral part of eating while very, very broke. And what's the difference between somebody saying, "Do you want the rest of this pizza? I'm just going to throw it away" and you waiting until they toss it and just dig it out of the trash.

Your friends clearly have no legitimate hippy life experience with that kind of arbitrary limitation.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's to get some perspective on how much they overspend/overeat normally. For context, one of these guys is a rugged dude, he has been known to pick up roadkill and cook it at home.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

He isn't in his office!

I think you should be able to accept food people give you, because otherwise it might be wasted. Anyway, if I did it I'd make up a huge thing of black beans and rice. You can eat that as is or put it in a tortilla and make a quesadilla... Basically, I'd eat Mexican food. It's cheap. Speaking of... I plan to make beans & rice tonight.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

But yeah, what Jenny said. (Stupid not seeing x-posts...)

― KitCat, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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